To William Hall, Esquire: With The Works Of Chaulieu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFCGHHIJKKILMMN LOONGPPQJEEQ RSSTRUUTMVVWMXYW| Attend to Chaulieu's wanton lyre | A |
| While fluent as the sky lark sings | B |
| When first the morn allures it's wings | B |
| The epicure his theme pursues | C |
| And tell me if among the choir | D |
| Whose music charms the banks of Seine | E |
| So full so free so rich a strain | F |
| E'er dictated the warbling Muse | C |
| Yet Hall while thy judicious ear | G |
| Admires the well dissembled art | H |
| That can such harmony impart | H |
| To the lame pace of Gallic rhymes | I |
| While wit from affectation clear | J |
| Bright images and passions true | K |
| Recall to thy assenting view | K |
| The envied bards of nobler times | I |
| Say is not oft his doctrine wrong | L |
| This priest of pleasure who aspires | M |
| To lead us to her sacred fires | M |
| Knows he the ritual of her shrine | N |
| Say her sweet influence to thy song | L |
| So may the goddess still afford | O |
| Doth she consent to be ador'd | O |
| With shameless love and frantic wine | N |
| Nor Cato nor Chrysippus here | G |
| Need we in high indignant phrase | P |
| From their Elysian quiet raise | P |
| But pleasure's oracle alone | Q |
| Consult attentive not severe | J |
| O pleasure we blaspheme not thee | E |
| Nor emulate the rigid knee | E |
| Which bends but at the Stoic throne | Q |
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| We own had fate to man assign'd | R |
| Nor sense nor wish but what obey | S |
| Or Venus soft or Bacchus gay | S |
| Then might our bard's voluptuous creed | T |
| Most aptly govern human kind | R |
| Unless perchance what he hath sung | U |
| Of tortur'd joints and nerves unstrung | U |
| Some wrangling heretic should plead | T |
| But now with all these proud desires | M |
| For dauntless truth and and honest fame | V |
| With that strong master of our frame | V |
| The inexorable judge within | W |
| What can be done Alas ye fires | M |
| Of love alas ye rosy smiles | X |
| Ye nectar'd cups from happier soils | Y |
| Ye have no bribe his grace to win | W |
Mark Akenside
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